MAL-2024-12359

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/test-packages1/MAL-2024-12359.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2024-12359
Published
2024-09-06T11:29:16Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:43:14Z
Summary
Malicious code in test-packages1 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (5c5608702af52a2ca19f0b384036f76248848f4b4ddbe582631d85b3f5e77dca)

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • typosquatting

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/test-packages1",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.63396683Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "c60c102f9f6ceedd506c000b76c2d9bc8cb9de87dae7007d3888169a1c6a0d98",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/test-packages1",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.675662439Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "5c5608702af52a2ca19f0b384036f76248848f4b4ddbe582631d85b3f5e77dca",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/test-packages1",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.861483179Z",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "sha256": "066ac6f5ce3ec3b9e427561d028af8136188144ec83d09c97667128e25afb9ea",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.1",
                "0.1.1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / test-packages1

Package

Name
test-packages1
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Purl
pkg:pypi/test-packages1

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1
0.1.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/test-packages1/MAL-2024-12359.json"